Head-rest



(No Model.)

J. H. BARTH.

HEAD. RBST. No; 471,049. Patented Mar. 15, 1892.

WITNESSES g 1 YNVENTOI? 45% By W 6 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. EARTH, OE BATESVILLE, INDIANA.

HEAD-REST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,049, dated March 15, 1892.

Application filed October 20, 1891- Serial No. 409,256. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. EARTH, of Batesville, in the county of Ripley and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Head-Rests for Chairs or Seats, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has for its object the production of a removable, readily-attachable, and otherwise convenient and desirable headrest for chairs or seats, more especially railroad-car seats; and itvconsists in a novel con struction of the same, substantially as hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents a View in perspective of a railroad-car seatin part with my improved head-rest applied, and Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the head-rest detached.

My improved head-rest is made of spring- Wire with a cloth or other soft covering applied to the upper portion of it for the head at the top, as at b, where the bent-over end of the one frame is made to form an eye 0 and the bent-over end of the other frame to form a hook d for attachment, as by the eye a of a loop-ended wire-stretcher D, that engages at its opposite end with the hook cl to hold the two frames at their proper distance apart and to stretch the covering or cushion O tight. Each wire of either frame is continued down in front for a certain distance, where it is formed with a backward jog e, and is further continued down in front to form a lower leglike portion f, which is doubled over below, as at g, and then run upward to form another spring leg-like portion h parallel with the portion f. At the top of the leg-like portion h the wire is bent to form a spring-coil 2', which is continued downward to constitute a back spring-leg 7c, terminating below in a spread loop-like foot portion Z. The flexible covering or cushion O is fixedly attached to these frames A A, commencing below in front at the jogs e e in the wires and running up over the backwardly-bent-over upper ends of the frames, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2.

To apply the head-rest to the upper portion of the back m of a' railroad-car seat G or other chair or seat, the stretcher D is made to engage the two frames A A, as described, and then the two spring leg-like portions sprung over the front of the back m of the seat and the spring-leg portion is, with its spread-foot portion Z, sprung over and down the rear side of the back of the seat. This will firmly clamp the head-rest to and on the back of the seat and leave the cushioned portion of the headrest above the back of the seat and make it form an easy spring-like support for the head.

When the head-rest is not required to be used, it is slipped from the back of the seat and the Wire-stretcher D unhooked or disengaged from the one frame A, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, when the whole may be folded up or compacted into a small space or compass and be packed away in a satchel or elsewhere.

The device will be found Very useful to railroad travelers or passengers, and as each person will carry his own head-rest it will be much more cleanly and desirable than a fixed head-rest used promiscuously. It, moreover, is quickly applied and removed and is light and cheaply constructed, nor will it injure the seat, as it only presses gently against the back thereof. It is readily adjustable up or down to accommodate tall or short persons alike, and when in use will not present an objectionable appearance, but rather be an ornament, either in a railroad-car or public or private room.

Ilavin g thus described my invention, what I with an eye at its upper bent-over portion and claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters the other with a hook, the stretcher D, hinged Patent, isto the eye of one frame and provided with an The herein-described head-rest for chairs, eye for engaging the hook of the other frame, 15

5 consisting of the frames A, each formed of a and the covering or cushion O, secured to the single piece of wire having its upper en (1 bent upper portion of the said frames, substantially over backwardly and downwardly, as at b, and l as herein shown and described.

its lower part bent up parallel with the said JOIIN II. BAR'lll. lower portion, thence into a coil, and down \Vitnesses: Io ward to fOI'lll a spring-leg 7t, having a loop- \V. T. GREEMANN,

like foot, one of the frames being provided 1\;[.II. CAMDEN. 

